US firm Apple has confirmed its move into the telecoms industry, unveiling the long-awaited iPhone.

Users will be able to download music and videos with the phone, demonstrated by Apple boss Steve Jobs at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Mr Jobs praised the phone’s design and told the audience the “magical device” would “revolutionise the industry”. The phone, which will cost from $499 (£257) to $599, will be launched in the US in June and Europe later this year. Apple is not yet saying how much the iPhone will cost in the UK, but using the comparison of a Mac mini computer the 4 gigabyte (GB) model would be about £335.

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Wu Haocong, 22, was born in Guangdong Province of China. He is currently a senior student at the Wuhan University of Technology majoring in automobile engineering. He is expected to graduate with a bachelors’ degree next year.

An avid automobile fan, he spends most of his free time studying car design. He is also proficient in design software including 3dmax, catia, rhino and photoshop. With support from his parents, friends and professors he was able to be chosen as a finalist for the 2006 Michelin Challenge Design.

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Puma and Starck continue the story of evolution with the introduction of Starck Naked Body wear for Spring Summer 2007. The story begins with Starck’s theory of evolution, again we encounter the “super monkey” who first appeared in 2004 wearing the iconic Puma Starck footwear. With his curiosity awakened the Super Monkey continues down the road of evolution and discovers a highly developed species, MAN. He sees they are not naked as he is, instead they wear this incredible body wear, fascinated by this technological advancement ” super monkey” tries the body wear for himself but he is unable to figure it out and resigns himself to the fact that he simply cannot keep up with MAN and retreats in defeat back to his old ways.

World-renowned designer Philippe Starck has successfully continued and evolved his design collaboration with Puma and has developed a highly technical yet minimalist aesthetic for the Puma Starck Naked collection. The collection is both functional and sexy, consisting of 15 styles of body wear for men and women and available in simple colours of pure off white and reduced charcoal. The skin-tight silhouettes of light seamless lycra fabric reveal transparent insets that show skin in an understated fashion. The sleek lines and architectural influences are unmistakably Starck and the comfort and fit is truly Puma.

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“La Liseuse” is a table lamp made of lackered steel. The shade refers to the form of a mushroom, not without recalling the general outline of a classical lamp, of which the feet and the lampshade would have been cut in two on the height.The lamp is constituted of two parts of folded steel. These two parts are combined to create a form as simple as possible.

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LG Electronics presents the J10HD Chocolate, a media center jukebox with an 80 GB hard disk. Another neat feature of the system is the ability to make pre-programmed recordings of digital radio shows to the HDD, to enjoy whenever suits you. That hard drive, of course, also allows you to rip, store and playback music from your CDs, with a USB socket allowing your MP3 player’s music/MP4 player’s video to join in the fun, too.

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“AEON is a complex that while comprised of the traditional components of office towers, hotel, residences, and retail, it is not reducible to those elements alone. It is a dynamic hybrid that through specific fusions of these functions and unprecedented new spaces create a synergy, a fundamentally new organization whose unity forms a whole greater than the sum of its parts. AEON is comprised of two main features, a horizontal plinth and vertical towers”.Vertically, AEON rearranges the proximities of two very familiar typologies, slab and tower, into a new and unique configuration. Four separate towers rise up to merge into a single slab building in an unprecedented formal language. The lower parts consist of the offices as individual towers which emerge from the ground separately promoting the distribution of uses across the site. As individual towers merge, they create different office configurations ranging from 1000 sqm to 4000 sqm. This allows corporations of different scales to find the space and identity they desire. The close proximity of the towers to one another creates and promotes multiple dynamic public spaces from the ground up. The principal public space occurs where the towers merge. The Skylobby at 170 meters above the ground defines where different user groups of the building meet, cross paths, interact and distribute throughout AEON. Above the Skylobby, the hotel and the residences are organized into a new folded variation of the slab building typology. The folded building maximizes frontal views to the ocean, the growing city, and the desert. In effect the folds multiply corners and thus panoramic views. All residents in this building will occupy rooms and residences which are truly unique, no two being exactly the same. AEON is topped by the “Crown Space” which provides ultra luxurious amenities with panoramic views in every direction, 320 meters above the ground.

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From the street the house looks like a tower seated on the slope of a grassy lawn. It brings together primary volumes and fluid objects with curvilinear structures, with the aim of building an organism arising from the juxtaposition of diverse spatial places which are nonetheless continuous and interconnected. At the bottom of the site, a wall defined by its internal contents is in contrast with the tower whilst sharing its base. A coordinated succession of shapes and supple lines shows off a prismatic and sharp triple height. From dusk till dawn, the external glass walls allow sun and sky to continuously reinterpret the architectural discourse, shifting its perception and plasticity.

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Continue reading ‘Antonino Cardillo: Dualistic Space in Erice, Trapani’

With minimalist design and a 7 inch screen, a single navigational wheel, the iRiver NV has got it all – the look, the touch, and the functions. The iRiver NV features 1.3MP digital camera, a GPS, T-DMB digital television signals, and an FM transmitter for broadcasting your media playback to your radio or car stereo.

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